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Nate Wiener can put his fight against cancer that took place 15 years ago in a perspective that few can. "All told, I went through a total of six months of chemo and radiation," the 38-year-old Allentown resident said of his battle with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. "Compared to what other people go through with other types of cancer, it was like the common cold. I'm not grateful I had it, but after what I saw other people go through — I had just one blood transfusion — it happened at the perfect time in my life. I was just out of college, had my first job and was looking to leave it anyway, and this was my ticket out." After beating the disease,...

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